What does a healthy health care system need to deliver for patients—and for the people caring for them? Shelly Boshart Davis welcomes Senator Christine Drazan and registered nurse Tamara Dahl to discuss safe staffing, rural access, hospital finances, and insurance affordability. Dahl shares lessons from labor and delivery and the pressures that contribute to nursing burnout. Drazan revisits her recent debate comments about nursing ratios and explains why she sees patient care, nursing support, and hospital stability as connected priorities. Together, they ask how Oregon can move beyond insurance coverage to usable access and better health outcomes.

Mike McLane sits down with longtime Southern Oregon chamber leader Brad Hicks to explain what a Chamber of Commerce actually does and why local business advocacy matters. Hicks discusses his nearly three decades representing Southern Oregon employers, regulatory and permitting burdens, education, transportation, business recruitment, and how Oregon’s business environment changed over the course of his career.

Mike McLane is joined by Redmond School Board Vice Chair Michael Summers for a detailed look inside Oregon’s public-school system. They discuss local control, curriculum, budgets, teacher negotiations, classroom discipline, special education, cell phones, parent involvement, and what a school board can realistically change when many education policies are set at the state level.